A Home Office research document team used data gathered in the 2001 census and American methodology to reach a "central estimate" of 430,000 illegal immigrants, or 0.7 per cent of the UK population. That includes those who have overstayed their visas and failed asylum seekers who have not left the UK.

Having had spent this morning in the local Magistrates' Court and having been even more unimpressed with the current crop of than I was previously; please ask one of your ex-poly lecturers to explain sentence construction - to you.